Exxon Mobil spent $2 million on pro-fracking NY ad campaign

6:35 PM,
Mar. 28, 2013

Written by

Jon Campbell
Albany Bureau

ALBANY Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. spent $2 million on a pro-drilling advertising campaign en route to becoming New York's second-highest spender on lobbying last year, according to a report Thursday from the state's ethics board.

Exxon Mobil spent $2.1 million total on its New York lobbying in 2012, second only to the $4.2 million spent by a coalition of business interests known as the Committee to Save New York, the Joint Commission on Public Ethics found.

State records show the company sent $2 million in July to the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York, a trade group, to fund a series ...